NextEra Energy and Google Cloud announced a significant expansion of their long-standing energy and technology collaboration on December 8, 2025. The partnership will develop multiple gigawatt-scale data center campuses across the United States with accompanying generation and capacity infrastructure, while Google Cloud will power NextEra Energy's enterprise-wide digital transformation using AI and cloud infrastructure.

Strategic Data Center Development Plans

The companies have agreed to jointly develop multiple gigawatt-scale data center campuses across the United States. This collaborative approach will enable rapid development of land, load interconnection, and supporting generation and capacity resources needed to deliver continued data center growth. The companies are currently developing the first three campuses and are collaborating to identify additional locations and expansion plans.

The partnership builds on an existing relationship between NextEra Energy and Google, with the two companies already operating or contracted for approximately 3.5 gigawatts. Recent collaborations include the restart of the Duane Arnold Energy Center in Iowa and two new long-term power purchase agreements adding 600 megawatts of clean energy capacity to Oklahoma's electricity grid to support Google's technology infrastructure.

Technology Collaboration and AI Integration

NextEra Energy and Google Cloud will collaborate on NextEra Energy's enterprise-wide digital transformation, using Google Cloud AI and infrastructure to accelerate the company's technological innovation and AI deployment. The first commercial product from this collaboration is expected to be available in the Google Cloud Marketplace by mid-2026.

The technology work will include dynamic, AI-enhanced field operations by integrating Google's generative and agentic AI capabilities with NextEra Energy's asset data. This integration aims to more accurately predict equipment issues and proactively respond by navigating supply chain bottlenecks, crew availability, and weather disruptions to schedule the right crew at the right time, keeping crews safe and maintaining service while reducing costs.

Grid Reliability and Forecasting Capabilities

The partnership will focus on enabling a more reliable and resilient grid to address challenges from storms, unprecedented growth, and aging assets. NextEra Energy's capabilities will be paired with Google's latest time-series open-source forecasting model (TimesFM 2.5), weather forecasting model (WeatherNext 2), and security-constrained power-flow modeling.

These technological integrations will provide NextEra Energy and its customers with better insights into system optimization opportunities, enhancing utilities' planning and grid management efforts to keep costs affordable while making electric service more reliable and resilient.

Joint Go-to-Market Strategy

NextEra Energy and Google Cloud will collaborate to advance technological innovation and AI, accelerating go-to-market activities. These efforts aim to transform the energy sector and accelerate the buildout of data centers and the energy infrastructure that supports them.

According to NextEra Energy chairman and CEO John Ketchum, “Our partnership with Google exemplifies this very singular moment when energy and technology are becoming inextricably intertwined. Together, we intend to build data center capacity and energy infrastructure at scale, advance cutting-edge technology and reimagine how energy companies operate. By combining NextEra Energy's unmatched skills as America's leading energy infrastructure builder and operator, with Google's world-class technology expertise, we will help transform the energy sector.”

Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian stated, “Working with NextEra Energy to power our infrastructure growth further strengthens our long-standing collaboration and will help us meet increasing demand from our customers as they deploy AI technologies at scale. By infusing NextEra Energy's deep domain expertise with Google Cloud's AI infrastructure, platform and models, we can together support the digital future of energy infrastructure.”

Company Backgrounds

NextEra Energy, Inc. is one of the largest electric power and energy infrastructure companies in North America and a leading provider of electricity to American homes and businesses. NextEra Energy owns Florida Power & Light Company, America's largest electric utility, which provides reliable electricity to approximately 12 million people across Florida.

Google Cloud provides AI, infrastructure, developer, data, security, and collaboration tools, offering a fully integrated and optimized AI stack with its own planet-scale infrastructure, custom-built chips, generative AI models and development platform, as well as AI-powered applications.

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